Bradley close to developing a mascot?

[AZ BU Fan]

Fur trapper as a BU mascot... Harkening to Peoria's earliest days.... They had to be pretty "Brave" back then.. Also they were Indian friendly!




Louis Jolliet - Explorer

Can't wait for the mascot to fire off his musket during games - at officials, opposing team coaches, opposing team players,
before crucial 1 and 1 FT's at the end of games....

Pelts can be banners of MVC teams BU skins!

[kds]

Fur trapper as a BU mascot... Harkening to Peoria's earliest days.... They had to be pretty "Brave" back then.. Also they were Indian friendly!




Louis Jolliet - Explorer

Can't wait for the mascot to fire off his musket during games - at officials, opposing team coaches, opposing team players,
before crucial 1 and 1 FT's at the end of games....

Pelts can be banners of MVC teams BU skins!

AZ, you just got my vote. how great an idea

[Rhino65]

I'm a current student at bradley and am not a fan of the proposed gargoyle mascot. Personally I think it would look tacky and wouldn't be accepted well by the majority of fans. With the new logo being a shield, I'm wondering why no one has brought up either a knight or a Mr. Brave type mascot with a Captain America type feel. Both mascots would symbolize honor and loyalty to Bradley and the new shield logo, while also being a lot more relevant then a cartoonish gargoyle.

[Da Coach]

I'm a current student at bradley and am not a fan of the proposed gargoyle mascot. Personally I think it would look tacky and wouldn't be accepted well by the majority of fans. With the new logo being a shield, I'm wondering why no one has brought up either a knight or a Mr. Brave type mascot with a Captain America type feel. Both mascots would symbolize honor and loyalty to Bradley and the new shield logo, while also being a lot more relevant then a cartoonish gargoyle.

Political correctness...a knight or superhero would too male (sexist), too militaristic (violent), and too white (racist).....

[tornado]

Gargoyles are ugly -will the womens' teams accept that??

[Chico]

Still say Cavalry. Can see it now. At the first game bring the Indian from Oklahoma, thought I'd never forget his name, back and have a mascot dressed as a Cavalryman chase him out of Carver.

[Da Coach]

Michael Haney.

Some articles-

http://lydia.bradley.edu/campusorg/scout/archives/091595/article5.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-03-28/features/9303280387_1_michael-haney-fight-for-indian-rights-museum-s-exhibit

[tornado]

Here's a related article on team nicknames & mascots...highlighting how terribly thin skinned some people are...

There's a battle going on in Wisconsin to try to force various high schools and state schools into changing their team names..

An outfit that calls themselves...
"Indian Mascot and Logo Taskforce for the Wisconsin Indian Education Association"

is on the warpath and wants to force every school with a native American name into changing it.. one of their "chief" spokespeople, a woman named Barbara Munson has some interesting things to say...

...some of the things she says are downright preposterous and even offensive in themselves...

"Would you call your team the African Americans?"
(but we do call teams Irish, Dutchmen, Scots, etc...and those people don't seem offended by it!)

"It would be sort of like asking a sexual assault victim to out into the community and
request 10 percent of the population to support their complaint," Munson said."
(so she thinks having a high school team clear across the state with a native American nickname is the equivalent of and as serious as getting raped??)

"Indian nicknames victimize Native American children." (personally I'd fight the poverty, lack of decent education, and physical abuse issues first, but to each his own)

"Indian mascot stereotypes are European American ideas about what American Indian people are like.
They are very simplified, they are very stereotypical"
(Really?? Then why do schools that are attended by ONLY native American schools have those same nicknames - even "Redskins"?)

http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Lawmakers-to-take-up-Indian-Mascot-bill-227794251.html

[ph]

I'm waiting for PETA to develop our new mascot:

http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2013/10/11/Washington-Redskins.aspx